Senate Judiciary votes on party lines to advance William Barr's nomination to be Trump's AG

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Matt Zapotosky February 7 at 12:52 PM

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday along party lines to advance William P. Barr’s nomination to become attorney general — a procedural step that sets the stage for his confirmation vote next week before the entire Senate.

Because Republicans control the Senate, Barr will likely be confirmed easily — though potentially without any Democratic support. At the Judiciary Committee’s hearing Thursday, all 10 committee Democrats voted against moving the nomination forward, while all 12 Republicans voted to advance Barr to the full Senate.

Democrats said they were particularly concerned that Barr would not specifically commit to letting the public see whatever report is produced by the special counsel investigation into President Trump’s campaign.

“They paid for it,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who has co-sponsored a bill requiring the findings be released. “They deserve to see everything that’s in it.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-judiciary-committee-expected-to-advance-barrs-nomination-to-become-attorney-general/2019/02/06/005f1ca6-2983-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Senate Judiciary Attorney General Vote

C-Span:

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes along party lines to send William Barr’s nomination to be the next attorney general to the Senate floor.

Live (too late now):

https://www.c-span.org/video/?457544-1/senate-judiciary-committee-advances-william-barr-nomination-party-lines&live

VOD:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?457544-1/senate-judiciary-committee-advances-william-barr-nomination-party-lines&live=#

[BigmanPigman]

2. The Dems said they will get the report out.

Swallwell and Schiff have something planned.

[Talitha]

4. I might be mistaken on this, but for some reason it stuck in my brain.

IIRC, there was something in the past that was also not 'supposed' to be made public. So to make it available, someone read the whole shebang out loud (in the House?) which automatically made it part of their record - which IS available to the public.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I seem to remember something like that too.

I bet they have a couple plans going as "Back up plans A, B, C and D" since they are ready for this and have been for two, long years.

[Hulk]

3. Just curious if we're able to see everything in Nixon and Clinton's investigation?

I have no idea, and I would assume there would be portions that would be unavailable for security reasons; but we should be able to review the entire report otherwise.